Riot

Black Friday

30 Sep 2005 · 22.80° N, 83.00° E

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When
30 Sep 2005
Kind
Riot
Coordinates
22.80° N, 83.00° E
Description
shooting of protesters in India by the police on 30 September 2005

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Black Friday (2005)

Black Friday was a massacre on 30 September 2005 in the towns of Tura and Williamnagar, in Meghalaya, India when police shot and killed 9 protesters during a protest against the state government's decision to transfer the education board from Tura to the state capital, Shillong. They were the single largest acts of violence in those towns since the Indian Independence Movement.

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